Team India start their ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 campaign on Wednesday, June 5 against Ireland in New York. This is the first time in 15 years that both these teams will be facing each other in T20 World Cup. Ireland are coming off a win against Pakistan last month in a T20I but Sri Lanka dominated them in the warm-up game. However, they have shown that they have enough in the tank to challenge the big teams and with the surface playing as it has in New York the gap between the two teams has only reduced.
India will take confidence from the fact that they have played once in these conditions and would fancy their chances against a comparatively weaker opponent, especially with Virat Kohli, one of the most experienced players in such conditions available and likely to open. How Ireland batters play the conditions and the Indian bowlers might be the decisive factor but there will be a lot of running between the wickets and focus on singles and doubles more than boundaries with the ground size being big.